Recent multidimensional molecular profiling advances have begun to match the complexity of cancer, revolutionizing our appreciation of tumours as complex ecosystems. In this Comment, Grünwald and Khokha call for a shift in comprehension of tumour tissue organization; while tumour tissues are heterogeneous, they are not disordered, and, like all multicellular entities, they propagate their functions via a considerable level of self-organization.
- Barbara T. Grünwald
- Rama Khokha
